Fast Training of Sinusoidal Neural Fields via Scaling Initialization

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Autores principales: Yeom, Taesun, Lee, Sangyoon, Lee, Jaeho
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author Yeom, Taesun
Lee, Sangyoon
Lee, Jaeho
author_facet Yeom, Taesun
Lee, Sangyoon
Lee, Jaeho
contents Neural fields are an emerging paradigm that represent data as continuous functions parameterized by neural networks. Despite many advantages, neural fields often have a high training cost, which prevents a broader adoption. In this paper, we focus on a popular family of neural fields, called sinusoidal neural fields (SNFs), and study how it should be initialized to maximize the training speed. We find that the standard initialization scheme for SNFs -- designed based on the signal propagation principle -- is suboptimal. In particular, we show that by simply multiplying each weight (except for the last layer) by a constant, we can accelerate SNF training by 10$\times$. This method, coined $\textit{weight scaling}$, consistently provides a significant speedup over various data domains, allowing the SNFs to train faster than more recently proposed architectures. To understand why the weight scaling works well, we conduct extensive theoretical and empirical analyses which reveal that the weight scaling not only resolves the spectral bias quite effectively but also enjoys a well-conditioned optimization trajectory. The code is available $\href{https://github.com/effl-lab/Fast-Neural-Fields}{here}$.
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spellingShingle Fast Training of Sinusoidal Neural Fields via Scaling Initialization
Yeom, Taesun
Lee, Sangyoon
Lee, Jaeho
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural fields are an emerging paradigm that represent data as continuous functions parameterized by neural networks. Despite many advantages, neural fields often have a high training cost, which prevents a broader adoption. In this paper, we focus on a popular family of neural fields, called sinusoidal neural fields (SNFs), and study how it should be initialized to maximize the training speed. We find that the standard initialization scheme for SNFs -- designed based on the signal propagation principle -- is suboptimal. In particular, we show that by simply multiplying each weight (except for the last layer) by a constant, we can accelerate SNF training by 10$\times$. This method, coined $\textit{weight scaling}$, consistently provides a significant speedup over various data domains, allowing the SNFs to train faster than more recently proposed architectures. To understand why the weight scaling works well, we conduct extensive theoretical and empirical analyses which reveal that the weight scaling not only resolves the spectral bias quite effectively but also enjoys a well-conditioned optimization trajectory. The code is available $\href{https://github.com/effl-lab/Fast-Neural-Fields}{here}$.
title Fast Training of Sinusoidal Neural Fields via Scaling Initialization
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04779